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• RVC Lecturer awarded BVA Animal Welfare Foundation research grant to study the COVID ‘Pandemic Puppy’ phenomenon in the UK

  

   Dr Rowena Packer has been awarded a research grant from the BVA Animal Welfare Foundation. These grants are available to experienced researchers for short, desk-based research projects on high priority issues in animal welfare. Rowena, Lecturer in …

   13 Aug 2020

   Dr Rowena Packer has been awarded a research grant from the BVA Animal Welfare Foundation. These …

• New RVC research reveals dog breeds with folded ears more likely to suffer from blood blisters of the ear

  

  Aural haematoma, also known as a ‘blood blister of the ear’, is a distressing condition for dogs where the ear flaps fill with bloody fluid.

   09 Nov 2021

• World’s smallest dogs prone to health problems despite rising popularity, according to latest RVC research

  

  Ownership of the Chihuahua, the world’s smallest dog breed, is rising sharply. Yet, according to the largest ever study of Chihuahuas treated in first opinion veterinary practices, the breed is particularly prone to dental disease, obesity, and …

   12 Feb 2020

• Now listen ear: New RVC research reveals the dog breeds most affected by ear infections

  

  Largest study into why dogs get ear infections included anonymised data from more than 22,000 dogs across the UK to help owners spot the signs

   07 Sep 2021

• New RVC research helps owners better understand the remaining life expectancy of dogs

  

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College’s (RVC) VetCompass programme now enables owners to predict the remaining life expectancy of their dog from different ages, with results broken down by breed and gender to make these as useful as possible for owners of many breeds in the UK. The findings also identify breeds with the greatest and lowest life expectancies of the 18 breeds in the study, highlighting wide differences in life expectancy amongst popular breeds.

   28 Apr 2022

• New Society for Reproduction and Fertility Return to Research Scholarship awarded to Dr Lisa Thurston

  

  Dr Lisa M Thurston has been awarded a Society of Reproduction and Fertility Return to Research Scholarship to work on the following project: Investigating the role of extracellular vesicles in gamete-oviductal cell communication in the female …

   12 Mar 2018

  Dr Lisa M Thurston has been awarded a Society of Reproduction and Fertility Return to Research …

• ABWE Students represent RVC at BIAZA (British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums) Research conference

  

   4 of our BSc and Masters students represented the RVC at the 20th BIAZA research conference at Paignton Zoo - 9th-11th July. A great opportunity to display their work on some very interesting and worthy questions:   Mitali Sharma,  gave a …

   03 Aug 2018

   4 of our BSc and Masters students represented the RVC at the 20th BIAZA research conference at …

• New RVC research uses machine-learning to diagnose Cushing’s syndrome in dogs

  

  Utilising machine-learning methods in clinical practice, could contribute to improved diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome in dogs

   12 May 2021

• Pioneering RVC research study reveals impacts of horse shoe and ground surfaces on horses and riders

  

  RVC equine research reveals associations between hoof-ground interactions and upper body movements of horses and their riders

   06 Dec 2021

  Pioneering RVC study reveals associations between hoof-ground interactions and upper body movements …

• New research from the RVC reveals differing views on improving UK broiler (meat) chicken welfare

  

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has found economic costs, environmental impacts, and misalignment between consumer purchasing and understanding are key reasons for the limited shift of UK chicken meat production to higher …

   28 Apr 2025

  New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has found economic costs, environmental …